Thursday, 24 October 2013

London Film and Comic con, Kensington olympia

So after Cardiff Comic con I was kinda pumped about the
business, but unbelievably disappointed that the website wasn’t up and
running.The weekend after my birthday I
came up to London to see Ali and we ended up finishing the website as well as
watching the entire 6th series of Big Bang theory (of which a
t-shirt is available here.

As we were doing this I’d set up an account with a new
supplier who sells some awesome transformers t-shirts and ordered 100 of these
and topped up the stock of our other shirts and was prepped for the London Film
and Comic con at Kensington Olympia.

The Friday before the con I came up to London to set up the
stall so got to the venue, dumped all my tee’s on the table, covered them with
a sheet and took my empty suitcase with me to Caledonian road to pick up our oh
so sweet transformers tee’s.The guy at
the factory was really nice if not more than a little surprised that I was
taking all the shirts in my suitcase, but I signed the form and I was off back
to Olympia where I dumped the suitcase before going home.Just as I was falling asleep I got a call
from Ali’s wife telling me he was over excited as although he’d never been to a
comic con he’d found out Brian Blessed was going to be there!

Now getting to Olympia is actually pretty easy for me, 1
change at Clapham and I’m there, for all Ali claims at living in London it
takes him a bit longer to get there than it does for me (it involves 2 buses a
tube and a walk).I was there bright and
early, waiting on Ali who had half our shirts which I’d brought up the previous
weekend and winding me up that he hadn’t bothered to bring any.

So the Con was pretty quiet, overall we sold less shirts
than Cardiff.Our stall was opposite one
of the photo booth’s which was pretty awesome as for about a hour we could hear
“GORDON’S ALIVE!” being shouted by the legend that is Brian Blessed.We also saw Michael Shanks (better known as
Danial Jackson to Stargate fans and Victor to Burn Notice fans – what do you
mean you’ve never heard of Burn Notice?It’s awesome.I mean, Bruce
Campbell – nuff said).

My Highlights of Cardiff Comic con included:

Hearing Brian Blessed from our stall.

Too many cosplay of the Doctor.

Cosplay power ranger couple who shouldn’t have
been wearing lycra.

Slutty Captain America crossplay (In case you
were curious, crossplay is cosplay as the opposite sex, so yes, it was a very attractive
female Captain America)

So now I’m going back to packing for tommorro’s trip to
London for the start of MCM London Comic Con at the excel centre (and by
packing I mean baking cookies) but we’ll update you after the weekend with our
stories...........